Reconstruction
Reconstruction Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
A powerful business structure that allowed companies to consolidate control over an entire industry, limit competition, and fix prices
What is a trust?
This group of people face push factors that included famine, war, an d high taxes
What were Chinese Immigrants?
Definition of Imperialism
The policy of creating an empire (extending a country’s boundaries through force or diplomacy)
Southern democrats fighting for myth of the preservation of states’ rights and a people’s noble way of life
What were the Redeemers?
The Progressive Amendments
What were the 16th (federal income tax), 17th (direct election of senators), 18th (prohibition), 19th (Women's Suffrage) Amendments
The definition nativism
What is the belief that immigrants are inferior to those that are born in the United States; policies and actions take place to discriminate against immigrants?
A law that required Native American families to acquire on 160 acres of land while surrendering the "surplus" to white Americans in exchange for citizenship.
What was the Dawes Act?
In exchange for Hayes winning the presidency, Democrats agreed not to block the election results, and Republicans agreed to remove all federal troops from the South.
Reform-minded journalists, writers, and photographers in the Progressive Era in the United States (1890s–1920s) who claimed to expose corruption and wrongdoing in established institutions, often through sensationalist publications.
What are muckrakers?
The immigration station that both welcomed and barred many immigrants from Asia.
What was Angel Island?
The nation that the U.S. intervened with its political affairs to push it's agenda and build the Panama Canal.
Colombia
After Reconstruction, the South builds a segregated society in which black people are not first class citizens. They use violence and intimidation to preserve racist customs and laws; federal government does not intervene until the Civil Rights Movement almost a century later.
A political party that advocated for government ownership of railroad and telephone companies, a graduated income tax, shorter workdays and the direct election of senators.
What was the populist party?
A law that banned Chinese Women from entering the U.S.
What was The Page Act?
A law that attempted to fix the wrongs of the Dawes Act and give Native Americans the choice to assimilate or acculturate.
The place where many newly freed African Americans received an education no matter their age
What was Tolsen's Chapel?
Carnegie used this monopolist-method to gain control of the steel industry.
What was Vertical Integration?
What were the 2nd generation Chinese Americans?
The extreme limit of settled land for a group
What was the frontier?